Auctioneer Jennifer Bolton loves fundraising for non-profits, schools, and community organizations. She began her fundraising career as a professional spotter for Dick and Sharon Friel, the legendary team who invented the Paddle Raise. Inspired by their entertaining style, she attended the World Wide College of Auctioneering in 2004. That same year, she founded Allegria Auctions with a few talented team members. "Allegria" means happiness - the feeling that comes from helping others.
Jennifer's team has helped hundreds of organizations and their supporters make a difference in their communities throughout the Pacific Northwest. They especially enjoy building ongoing relationships with client communities.

The Love Is Mutual
"Jennifer is energetic, enthusiastic, organized, easy going, flexible, and simply put, a dream to work with. Her enthusiasm is contagious - you can tell she loves what she does and her passion spread through the crowd. We nearly doubled our revenue at the auction I recently chaired, mainly due to Jennifer's incredible energy and excellent auctioneering. I will certainly work with her again and again and would recommend her to any charity wanting to increase revenue while adding a lot of fun to your annual event."

"Jennifer Bolton of Allegria Auctions is a consummate professional. She has been the auctioneer for Grant Center of the Expressive Arts' auction for the past three years. It has been a great pleasure to work with Jennifer on our auction. She truly delivers great results, keeping the auction moving at a good pace, while assuring the best possible outcomes! She is a dream to work with and provides the auction committee with invaluable input and expertise."

"Jennifer was the auctioneer at our elementary school's recent charity auction. She rocked! Not only did she do a superb job the evening of the event, she also did her homework ahead of time. She came to our school to learn about us and our mission and offered to help sequence items in our live auction. OUTSTANDING."

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Auctioneer Jennifer Bolton was amazing from start to finish! From the day we interviewed her in person to our goodbyes/congratulations last night at our annual fundraiser, she was the perfect combination of both personal and professional with our organization. She provided the expertise we needed in our detailed prep work for our auction needs in the months prior...in addition to her fabulous enthusiasm and expert timing and control of the actual event. The proof is in the numbers...Jennifer (along with spotter Ken) not only increased our fundraising results even more than expected but our attendees enjoyed the event more than ever. Hire Allegria Auctions NOW!